A philosophy of the event edinburgh university press. After writing two early books on lyotard 1998 and 2000. This is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. A major problem threatens deleuzes project in the logic of sense. Preface, series 1 and 2, appendix 1 on simulacrum and ancient philosophy logic of sense. This is a radical interpretation of deleuze s logic of sense. Bowdens strategy is not to propose an original philosophical argument. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuzes philosophy as a whole, while the complementary deleuzes vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuzes work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form. Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a pure metaphysician. They combine them with the singularities that their own body. In this context, deleuzes notion of meat, that is the virtual idea of universal meat, puts a great challenge to the phenomenological notion of flesh. Deleuze deletes substance from his metaphysics in favor of the concept of difference and thus relies on the ontologically primitive event upon which to found being, thus resulting in the priority of events. Paradoxes imply that sense is a nonexisting entity xiii.
Deleuzes logic of sense sean bowden an incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of eventssean bowden shows how the deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and snarks. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and. In particular, the thesis analyses the way in which deleuze grounds this affirmation by establishing a complex and structural relation between the works representative of several of the philosophers and intellectual movements which. James williams has emerged as one of the most important and accomplished readers of the philosophy of gilles deleuze. Deleuze wants to show that there is a materiality of expression that is also a. In history and becoming, craig lundy puts forward a series of fresh and provocative responses to this enduring problematic. As of this writing, its been almost fifty years since gilles deleuze published his enigmatic masterpiece, the logic of sense. Deleuze and the history of mathematics book pdf download. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze.
Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies 9780748643646. In deleuzes logic of sense, many arguable and intriguing things are brought to the table. Deleuze s ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. See in particular sean bowden, the priority of events. It is only by breaking open the circle, as in the case of the mobius strip, by unfolding and untwisting it, that the dimension of sense appears for itself, in its irreducibility, and also in its genetic power as it animates an a priori internal model of the proposition. In joining peak and abyss together, nietzsche formulated a paradoxical logic in which chaos and. In his magnum opus difference and repetition, he tries to. Pdf gilles deleuzes logic of sense download ebook for free. In the logic of sense, deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events. Gilles deleuzes logic of sense edinburgh university press. Deleuzes children 281 downloaded by university of sydney at 17.
Deleuze thinks that in all worthwhile art there is an attempt to find release from the suffocating sense of given possibilities, a fight to. Here he meditates upon the art work of francis bacon, firmly identifying with his paitiing the kind of becomings that exemplify his nietzschian philosophy of movement, nonrepresentation, bwo and the capturing of forces. It is also largely neglected by commentators, who often argue that it is somewhat of an impasse in the deleuze corpus, the work of a structuralist deleuze, still under the influence of lacan and psychoanalysis, two unfortunate aspects which his meeting with guattari enabled him to get rid of the real. October other the phantasmatic simulacra semblances. Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuze s difference make. Oct 19, 2009 summary notes from gilles deleuzes francis bacon. Gilles deleuze, francis bacon the logic of sensation pt 1. Deleuzes exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuzes logic of sense. The first study of deleuze s critical and clinical project. For deleuze, sensation is always a verb, not a noun, and this book is an attempt to make this movement and logic of sensation apparentbut not necessarily visible. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuze s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event.
Oct 22, 2015 logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal works. The aim of this present study is above all to examine and clarify the complex way in which deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. Deleuzes ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. Jan 01, 2004 deleuze s exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. The first volume contained deleuze s essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacon s. Platonic or kantian, and the surface of sense or incorporeal events see. The paradox of sense, or on the event of thought in. The logic of sensation by gilles deleuze translated by daniel w.
Nov 16, 2017 deleuze s concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Seminar on deleuzes logic of sense, part 1 youtube. The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which deleuze affirms the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuze s ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum. May 19, 2008 this is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuze s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies at.
Deleuzes the logic of sense, part i multisense realism. Deleuzes logic of sense part 1 by john david ebert 11 youtube. Logic of sensehas a clear utopian aim, namely that of calling forth a new earth, a new people. Before turning to this account, and to the analysis of conceptual change that it implies, let me outline the traditional paradigm to. First published in 1969, shortly after difference and repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style and methods he would use in his later writing with felix guattari. There are six chairs imitating a forest arranged around a raised platform where a figure. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuze s logic of sense. In logic of sense, deleuze first analyzes the expressions of verbs of becoming which denote propositions expressing ideal events. W eve discussed in part a how sense, the expressed of the proposition, intervenes in the circle of the proposition, paradoxically grounding it despite being its effect the intervention of sense is at two points. Aidan tynan addresses deleuze s assertion that literature is an enterprise of health and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on life.
Gilles deleuze january 18, 1925november 4, 1995 was one of the most influential and prolific french philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. In the opening sections of his 1969 the logic of sense, gilles deleuze argues for a theory of the sense of propositions as the underlying and necessarily. Deleuzes concept of semantically generative events, and of semantic enhancement through intersections of paradoxical events the disjunctive synthesis was very helpful in the writing i did about art, and about intersecting exhibitions in the 1990s. Sense being one of the main discussions in deleuzes book logic of sense, the fifth series talks about sense and why it is more than the presuppositions it leads to on a daily basis. Smith university of minnesota press, 2005 ump amazon the cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Philosophys administrative offices are located on the fifth floor of the humanities building, room 5, on unms main campus. In particular, the book will analyze the way in which deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which will be seen below, between the works representative of.
Deleuzes book is really about sensation itself, or rather, a notion of sensation that is not a kind of procedural, kantian containersensation. Aug 02, 2010 in deleuzes logic of sense, many arguable and intriguing things are brought to the table. Aidan tynan addresses deleuzes assertion that literature is an enterprise of health and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on life. Deleuze and becoming bloomsbury studies in continental. Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuzes difference make. James williams explains the originality of deleuze s work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure. Deleuzes logic of sense is a timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions.
A major problem threatens deleuze s project in the logic of sense. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds. Difference and repetition are such an alternative to the dialectic that theyre difficult to grasp without a serious grounding in metaphysics see his books on kant and hume especially, spinoza, and bergson. It focuses on deleuzes concept of events and brings deleuzes work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and american pragmatism. W eve discussed in part a how sense, the expressed of the proposition, intervenes in the circle of the proposition, paradoxically grounding it despite being its effect. Deleuzes logic of sense is, like most of his works, a notoriously difficult book. James williams explains the originality of deleuzes work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure he constructs.
The first volume contained deleuzes essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons. If difference and repetition concerns itself with ontology, the logic of sense turns instead to logic, language, discourse, meaning, and the paradoxes between sense and nonsense. Jun 17, 2017 this is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuzes philosophy as a whole, while the complementarydeleuzes vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuzes work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form.
Paul livingston, unm, department of philosophy when. I am only on the third series out of many series in the book series here are like chapters. Gilles deleuze francis bacon the logic of sensation pt 1. To the question what is the use of philosophy the answer must be. Since its first publication, logic of sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, working from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. We can thus better define the whole of the platonic motiveit is a matter of choosing claimants, of. The first study of deleuzes critical and clinical project.
This is a radical interpretation of deleuzes logic of sense. Deleuzes the logic of sense edinburgh university press, 2011 jon roffe the synoptic approach to deleuzearguably the dominant strand of deleuze scholarship has cast a great deal of welcome light on what is and remains one of the more complex oeuvres in recent european philosophy. Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies at. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuze s writings, arguing that expressions of becoming s appear in two modes of temporality. Deleuzes neoleibnizianism, events and the logic of. Logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with felix guattari, antioedipus.
Here he meditates upon the art work of francis bacon, firmly identifying with his paitiing the kind of becomings that exemplify his nietzschian philosophy of movement, non. Deleuze s logic of sense, edinburgh university press, 2011, 296pp. This expressivist account of concepts is motivated by deleuze s empiricism and is crucially informed by his analysis of language and events in the logic of sense. Columbia university press, 1990 logique du sens, minuit, 1969galloway reading notes context and general notes the logic of sense, along with difference and repetition, represents the culmination of the first phase of deleuzes work on core philosophy, which roughly coincides with the decade of the. Deleuzes concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Deleuzes logic of sense 2011 by sean bowden, deleuze. An incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of events sean bowden shows how the deleuzian event. Only being at the third series, this is my second writing about the book. The psychoanalysis of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies its. As he writes in the preface, the privileged place assigned to the stoics in this text is due to their having been the initiators of a new image of the philosopher which broke away from the presocratics, socratic philosophy and platonism. How can deleuze combine the impassibility of sense with the power.
Download this is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. The paradox of regress 5 aug sense being one of the main discussions in deleuzes book logic of sense, the fifth series talks about sense and why it is more than the presuppositions it leads to on a daily basis. Quotes from the logic of sense the gray butterfly understands so well the event to be hidden that, by remaining in the same place, plastered to the trunk of a tree, it covers the whole distance separating it from the to invigorate of the black butterfly. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carroll s literary and logical paradoxes, deleuze s exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. Deleuzes logic of sense part 1 by john david ebert 11.
Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuzes writings, arguing that expressions of becomings appear in two modes of temporality. Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes, deleuzes exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. Mar 23, 2018 unm philosophy msc 03 2140 1 university of new mexico albuquerque, nm 871. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuzes ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum. This expressivist account of concepts is motivated by deleuzes empiricism and is crucially informed by his analysis of language and events in the logic of sense. Osullivan says that the figural within bacon parallels deleuzes own philosophical project especially in a thousand plateaus of thinking beyond the human, in the sense of the humans habitual mode of being, a representational mode osullivan, 64. It is in this sense that plato divides the domain of the imageidols in two. Deleuze, frege, kant, nietzsche, signification, sense, effect, event. The stoics are of central importance to deleuzes project in the logic of sense. Preface here deleuze begins by highlighting carroll and the stoics for their theory of events.
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